Not in My Name
Despite what the government wanted us to do, we came here today in solidarity. Despite what you may be hearing in much of the media, there are growing numbers, huge numbers, of Jews around the world who oppose what is going on in Palestine every single day.
Palestine is Not for Sale
It is white sovereignty that brought Herzog here—white sovereignty, even though Indigenous sovereignty has never been ceded. And that is the context we should really be talking about, the context that Minns and Albanese insist we forget. A context of colonisation here that allows so-called Australia to be an ally of the United States, which is also a settler colony, and of course Israel, the young colony.
Remember Gaza, Remember Palestine
In anger and grief, rage and shame, I want to talk today about relationality. I want to talk about what I have learned from being an anti-zionist Jew living on Wurundjeri Country and deeply committed to ethical liberatory relations with Palestine and Palestinians.
Poisoned Crumbs: human rights and the LGBTIQ+ community after Bondi
Although prominent LGBTIQ+ organisations have endorsed the government’s plan to combat antisemitism and hate, the proposed new laws actually pose grave risks to rights and freedoms within the queer community.
Empty Words, Emptying Stages
By isolating one writer as a potential risk, the institution produces a broader chilling effect in which participation itself becomes precarious. Public debate shrinks not because anyone is ordered to be silent, but because speech itself has been recoded as the risk.
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